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Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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A hacker who gained fame for unlocking Apple's iPhone when he was a teen now claims he's managed to hack the Playstation 3 too.
George Hotz said the hack took him five weeks to figure it out. He says he's planning on sharing the details online soon, when he's ironed out a couple of creases, and when he does, PS£ users could be able to run pirated games and homemade software.
Weirdly, figuring out the hack seems to have caused Hotz to take to speaking like a comic book evil villain.
"It's supposed to be unhackable - but nothing is unhackable," Mr Hotz told BBC News.
"I can now do whatever I want with the system. It's like I've got an awesome new power - I'm just not sure how to wield it." |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8478764.stm
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JoshWoodzy
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Location: Goshen, VA
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Milhouse
Joined: Dec 19 2008
Location: Charlottesville, VA
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There's also this guy named Bob. He's an electrical genius; one time he turned his mom's vibrator into a CD player using some chicken-wire and shit.
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TARDISman
Title: Time Traveller
Joined: May 18 2009
Location: The End of Time
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So he hacks a PS3 and his first course of action is to brag about it to the BBC...
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RIP Hacker 1993-2014
"Paint me like one of your French Squids" -My buddy on Relm vs Ultros. |
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
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Is it illegal to hack a device? Or just to play pirated stuff on it? It seems to me that hacking it should be legal, as you're just opening it up and messing with it, right? It's yours to do whatever you want with.
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Knyte
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Title: Curator Of The VGM
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All hacking a hardware system does is voids your warranty. Nothing illegal with that. It's how you use the hacks that makes it legal or not.
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
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They'll probably keep an eye on him then. Can't they do something over PSN?
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Deadmau_5pra
Title: Amatuer film/podcaster
Joined: Feb 10 2009
Location: Chicago Area
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| TARDISman wrote: |
So he hacks a PS3 and his first course of action is to brag about it to the BBC...
Moron |
This. Keep that shit to yourself.....and maybe a select few on facebook. 
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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Good grief. NOTHING is unhackable at this stage. Even pretending that's the case just sets you up as a target. You'd think Sony knows that.
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FNJ
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| Milhouse wrote: |
| There's also this guy named Bob. He's an electrical genius; one time he turned his mom's vibrator into a CD player using some chicken-wire and shit. |
you get to be king of the internet for a day for posting that.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
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| Good grief. NOTHING is unhackable at this stage. Even pretending that's the case just sets you up as a target. You'd think Sony knows that. |
Rule # 425:
By declaring your Hardware/Software/Website unhackable, you have just challenged every hacker in the world to fuck up your shit.
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